The former executive director of a Jersey City jobs program has been charged by federal authorities with embezzling funds from the nonprofit, two weeks after being charged in a state investigation with taking cash bribes in his role as the city’s school board president.

The new, federal charges against Sudhan M. Thomas, 44, were announced late Friday by U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito.

The training program assists Jersey City residents in preparing to enter the workforce. The group receives a large amount of its funding from federal grants from the U.S. Department of Labor and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Carpenito’s statement said.

Using his access to the program’s funds and control of its bank accounts, from March 2019 through July 2019, Thomas embezzled more than $45,000 from the agency, authorities allege, by drawing checks from program accounts that were made payable to others, but ultimately received the monies himself.

He also embezzled group funds by issuing program checks made out to cash that he either cashed himself or used to obtain bank checks that he made payable to his entity, Next Glocal, Carpenito said. They were then deposited into a Next Glocal bank account that he controlled.

Thomas used the money for personal expenses, including payments to his landlord in Jersey City and airfare and hotel expenses for a trip to Hawaii, and to fund transfers to his family’s trust account, the accusations against Thomas say.

Thomas was expected to make his first appearance in Newark federal court on Jan. 9.

Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop was not surprised by the charges “as it was the mayor and the JCEPT board leadership that submitted documents to law enforcement detailing what seemed to be discrepancies in accounting at JCEPT under Sudhan," spokeswoman Kim Wallace-Scalcione said in a statement.

“We have always said that we will have no tolerance for corruption and when this was brought to our attention we acted immediately,” she said. "We always assume people are serving for the right reasons but when those same people violate the public trust, as is alleged here, we are unforgiving with their conduct.”

On Dec. 19, Thomas, in his final month as Jersey City’s school board president, was one of five public officials charged with taking tens of thousands in bribes disguised as campaign contributions in return for steering lucrative legal work to an unnamed tax attorney working as an informant, New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal announced.